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MOUNT VERNON LODGE

Location: Malden

Chartered By: John T. Heard

Charter Date: 09/08/1858 VI-190

Precedence Date: 08/27/1857

Current Status: merged with Galilean Lodge, 09/10/1997, to form Mount Vernon-Galilean Lodge.

PAST MASTERS

Henry Locke Putnam, 1876, 1877

EVENTS

CONSTITUTION OF LODGE, OCTOBER 1858

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, November 1858, Page 19:

This is a new Lodge, which has just been established in the neighboring village of Malden, under highly favorable auspices. Having worked a year under Dispensation, it was constituted by the executive officers of the Grand Lodge, on Thursday, the 12th of October, when the officers were installed, and the hall, which has been tastefully and appropriately fitted up, was dedicated according to ancient usage. The ceremonies and services were conducted by the Grand Master, assisted by his officers, and passed off to the gratification of a large collection of Brethren, numbering over one hundred, from Boston, Charlestown, and Somerville. After the ceremonies, a Poem, of great merit and appropriateness, was delivered by Rev. Bro. T. J. Greenwood, a Chaplain of the new Lodge, by whom the excellent hymns sang on the occasion were also written.

The officers installed are as follows:

B. G. Hill, Master
Charles Hill and James Bartlett, Wardens
Edward D. Bell, Treas.
W. D. Holden, Secy.
Geo. D. Allen and R. W. Dresser, Deacons
Thos. S. Shedd and H. H. Hyde, Stewards
Rev. T. J. Greenwood, Chaplain, and
Thomas Tufts, Tyler

YEARS

1857 1858 1869 1870 1871 1873 1876 1877 1879 1880 1881 1883 1887 1888 1891 1894 1897 1899 1901 1903 1906 1907 1909 1910 1911 1916 1927 1930 1932 1936 1937 1939 1941 1951 1957 1958 1960 1976 1982 1988 1989 1995 1997

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

William F. Chester, DDGM, District 7 (Lynn), 1892, 1893, 1894; SN
George A. Chisholm, DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1931, 1932; N
Ernest A. Crossland, DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1953, 1954; N
Hagop V. Demirdjian, DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1988, 1989
Theodore N. Foque, DDGM, District 17 (Woburn), 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878; SN
Alvah D. Gardiner, Jr., DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1979, 1980; N
George M. Keen, DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1943, 1944; N
Walter F. Medding, DDGM, District 7 (Lynn), 1906, 1907; Junior Grand Warden 1910
Henry L. Taylor, DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1967, 1968; N
Edward B. Wentworth, DDGM, District 7 (Malden), 1921, 1922; N